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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

One problem here, before I explain the title, is that I haven't logged in to Slackware in a few days as I've been very busy. So unfortunately I can't exactly remember what I would have done that could have messed this up. I do remember installing thunar and dependencies, and I think that might have something to do with it. Here's the error I get when I run startx:

for some odd reason a while back going from 14.0 to current 14.1 rc1 x86 it did that to me. I did "a" slackpkg reinstall "a" and it reinstalled all of "a". I was not at the desk during the upgrade and figured something went wrong and I missed it. Funny thing is that system has been upgraded through the years from 10.2 up with slackpkg. And another note I did not do a system clean on it before a distro upgrade.
Don't know if this helps you but you never know.

If you're new to Slackware, maybe it can be easier for you to do a full installation: only those are officially supported.

if you have installed a 32bit slackware, to switch to a full installation using slackpkg (after having configured a mirror in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors)

Code:

slackpkg update
slackpkg install slackware

Interesting. I did not know you could do that. Still on 13.37, have not used in a couple months, did the update thing and cant get past login. Was going to a wipe and install of 14.x but will try this and wait for 14.1.